Improvement in hat and coat pegs



G. BUSS.

Hat and Coat Pegs. I Patented Sept. 22,1874.

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UNITED STATES PATENT QFFICE.

CHARLES BUSS, OF MARLBOROUGH, NEW HAMPSHIRE.

IMPROVEMENT IN HAT AND COAT PEGS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 155,142, dated September 2'2, 1874; application filed May 25, 1874.

To all whom it may concern Be it known that I, CHARLES BUSS, of Marlborough, Cheshire county, New Hampshire, have invented certain Improvements in Clothes-Pegs, &c., of which the following is a specification The invention herein described is an implement for attachment to walls of apartments and other positions, upon which to hang pictures or other objects, or to be used as a hat or clothes peg, either alone or as part of a rack, my invention being susceptible of an almost unlimited range of useful purposes, though mainly intended as an improvement upon pegsto be attached to walls upon which to hang hats, garments, &c.

The drawings accompanying this specification represent, in Figure 1, a side elevation, and in Fig. 2 a section, of a hat or clothes peg embodying my improvements. Fig. 3 shows a modification of my invention.

I provide a tubular flanged socket, B, and a screw-stem, (J, projecting centrally from the base thereof, the two being of metal, solidly united together or formed in one piece. In this socket B is inserted the end of a wooden peg or knob, A, as seen in Figs. 1 and 3, which fits snugly in the socket, and is there firmly held by a transverse rivet or pin, a, which passes through both the wood peg and the walls of the metallic socket surrounding the same, as seen in Fig. 2.

An article is thus. produced which is inexpensive and more durable than any heretofore made for like purposes, to my knowledge.

It has been usual to secure knobs in metallic bases by running into the metallic socket and around the shank of the knob a solder or soft metal; but this operation is troublesome and expensive, involving, also, a preliminary closing of the upper part of the socket around the knob-shank, and making it preferable, as well, to form the knob itself of a refractory material which will withstand the heat of the molten metal run around it.

I am also aware that knobs or pegs have been made by keying a gimlet-pointed screwshank into a wooden stem; but in such devices the Wooden stem is liable, in turn to work loose, after which the article becomes worthless.

By myv construction the defects above noted are removed, and I obtain a cheap, durable, and easily-made knob or peg.

What I claim as my invention is- The clothes peg or knob consisting of the combined screw-stem and metallic socket B G, solidly united together, and wooden peg or shank A, fitting said socket, and secured therein by a transverse rivet, a, as shown and set forth.

CHARLES B USS.

Witnesses:

A. L. BIGELOW, N ELSON CONVERSE. 

